1st time TT owner, with questions

Francesca Knowles wrote:

What, exactly, are you paying the dealer to do? If your vehicle came with a "tow package", presumably that at least included a lights connection with a four-flat hookup. I'm shootin' in the dark here, but that's the standard thing. With that as a starting point, the "work" you'd need done would be to install brake controller wiring, a charging line for the trailer battery, and maybe a backup lights connection. Plus a seven pole pigtail if you don't already have one.

And yet your work order doesn't include brake controller wiring, perhaps the most important of the components you need? What the heck ARE they doing???

Also, per the W/D system they already so helpfully ordered you:

Unless the numbers I'm looking at online are completely wrong, your trailer will weigh about 2,000 pounds under your vehicle's capacity. Tongue weight should come in at about 350 lbs....I can't imagine that will drop the rear of the tug more than an inch, if that. W/D may be just a cumbersome and unnecessary extra bit of trouble in your case.

Bottom line: you may not need weight distribution with this setup. The sole purpose of that system is to transfer weight away from the rear axle of the tug. If they're selling it to you as "sway control", you should be aware that many W/D systems provide no such thing, and require the adding of friction-type sway controllers. Which you can use just as effectively on the simple ball setup the tug already has.

If I was in your situation, I wouldn't decide on W/D until I looked at the trailer loaded for the road and hooked up to the tug. That is when you'll know. And W/D is an over-the-counter buy at any RV parts store, so don't let anyone tell you that it's something exotic!

I had thought we were getting the WD hitch, anti-sway bar and brake control package installed. Yet now it is sounding like they may have pulled a fast one on me. And I'm feeling really stupid for not catching it until now.

I'm going to go back down there and see if they'll pull out our file and the negotiating worksheet (which I saw them put in there). I swear the guy had written the brake controller package on that. And I know at one point towards the end I initialed that page. I'm hoping I can argue to have it included. Or maybe swap out the WD hitch for just a sway bar and brake controller. Although, it looks like a brake controller online is around $100, give or take (correct me if I'm wrong), versus $300 for the WD hitch, and I don't want to leave any money on the table that I don't need to.

Is the "7 pole pigtail" the same thing as the 7 prong plug? Or is that the wiring that hooks up from the trailer to that 7 prong plug?